Land Rover Automobiles Blog

In crafting a replacement for the Defender SUV, known around the world for a stop-at-nothing attitude, Land Rover is at a crossroads. Although it has received funding from parent company for the project, the development team is at odds on the character of the successor to the icon. ...    Read more

No wonder Land Rover was coy with details at the launch of its baby Range Rover, the Evoque: there may be some surprises under the hood. There may be plans to offer Land Rover's newest style leader with an EcoBoosted engine snagged from previous owner, Ford. ...    Read more

During Pebble Beach weekend, Land Rover launched its most exclusive and most expensive model year, the 2011 Range Rover Autobiography Black 40th Anniversary Limited Edition. Introduced to the world at "The Quail: A Motorsports Gathering," one of many events that comprise the festival of automobilia that is ...    Read more

Jaguar Land Rover's Indian owner, Tata Motors, plans to start building Land Rovers in India next year. Tata might be most famous for building the world's least-expensive car, the $2500 Nano, but the Indian company bought Jaguar Land Rover ...    Read more

Last month, Land Rover revealed its new entry-level Evoque two-door SUV, but a recent report states the British automaker may be in the midst of preparing yet another addition to the lineup. According to an Autocar report, Land Rover is ...    Read more

The LR2, Land Rover's baby model until the Evoque goes into production, receives a few updates for the 2011 model year. The changes to the 2011 Land Rover LR2 are minimal, but adopt Land Rover's new familial styling. The biggest change ...    Read more

As part of its celebration of 40 years of Range Rover production, Land Rover will finally unveil the newest member of its lineup this afternoon. We're all but certain that it will be a production model of the LRX concept, though perhaps by another name. We ...    Read more

Land Rover introduced a slew of revisions into its lineup last year, but the 2011 Range Rover has been further updated to provide customers the ultimate luxury/off-road vehicle. ...    Read more

Time flies, apparently, when you're a four-wheel-drive icon. Land Rover's Range Rover model line will turn 40 years old later this month. The notion of a luxury SUV isn't exactly revolutionary in this day and age, but when the truck launched on ...    Read more

With rumors swirling around an impending front-wheel-drive sport-utility offering, Land Rover confirmed the claim and announced a front-drive version of the upcoming compact LRX due out in 2011. ...    Read more

Land Rover is set to add 275 new jobs at its Solihull plant in the United Kingdom. Based in the West Midlands, the 275 manufacturing positions at Solihull were created in response to stronger demand for Land Rovers this year. In March, the ...    Read more

We're hard pressed to think of a Land Rover that hasn't been equipped with four-wheel-drive, but sources close to the automaker suggest the company's new Range Rover LRX model will ultimately be offered in a front-wheel-drive form. According to Autocar, the decision wasn't an easy one. ...    Read more

Rumors of a new model meant to replace the big Land Rover Discovery have been circulating for a while, and a report today indicates that the Discovery could in fact be replaced by a seven-seat variant of the next-generation Range Rover that's well on its way to production. As ...    Read more

The change from LR3 to LR4 isn’t much from the outside, but there is substance to this mid-cycle update. Frankly, this Land Rover didn’t need restyling. The crisp, modern design still looks good. Its squared-off features are practical but there’s enough sleek modernism to ...    Read more

Enjoy the insanity of Hamann’s Fiat Abarth 500, but want something with a little more space inside? You’re in luck -- the company just unveiled the Conqueror II, a highly tuned take on the Range Rover Sport. Arguably, the highlight of the Conqueror II lurks under the hood. In ...    Read more

Is a hybrid Jaguar or Land Rover in your future? That increasingly appears to be a possibility, especially since Jaguar Land Rover was just awarded $458 million from the European Investment Bank (EIB) to develop hybrid powertrains.According to a release issued by parent firm Tata Motors, the loan was issued ...    Read more

Want a first look at the production-ready Land Rover LRX? Start planning a trip to France. The new model will make its official debut at the 2010 Paris motor show this September. Earlier this year, Land Rover confirmed it would indeed build the LRX -- first shown as ...    Read more

Chill Rides: Some cars quicken your pulse, but others calm your nerves.This magazine was founded on the simple premise, "No boring cars." Indeed, we all like to imagine ourselves as hard-core, take-no-prisoners speed junkies who readily sacrifice comfort in the name of performance. But after recently driving 7000 miles in ...    Read more

In recent concepts, Land Rover has teased a number of different hybrid propulsion systems, each slightly different from those currently on the market. Neat as they may be, it seems as if the SUV-builder may adopt a slightly more conventional setup for a production vehicle. Autocar reports that Land Rover ...    Read more

The 2010 Range Rover Sport Autobiography Limited Edition was announced today at the 2009 Los Angeles auto show and upgrades the Range Rover Sport Supercharged for even more exclusivity. Like the Range Rover Sport Supercharged, the Autobiography Limited ...    Read more

I'm not ashamed to admit I thought the Range Rover Sport was, at best, pretty absurd when it showed up in 2005; at worst, it was blasphemous. It looked a lot like a real Range Rover but wasn't one; it was mechanically related to the all-conquering LR3 but sat too ...    Read more

The Noise of the Realm: Land Rover Defenders and the Family Vacation.Long trips in traditional Land Rovers (known as Defenders and, before that, the so-called "Series" cars, I-III) have been a Kitman family tradition for almost fifty years. What made us seem like clairvoyant early adopters in the protozoan days ...    Read more

It’s hard to think of the Range Rover as anything but a luxury SUV, but for those who want the utmost in comfort, performance, and firearms storage, you’ll be hard-pressed to trump the new Overfinch Holland & Holland Range Rover. <P class=MsoNormal> Overfinch, a British tuning firmthat ...    Read more

Rumors and spy shots of a production LRX have circulated on the Internet for quite some time, but today, Land Rover officially announced it would be pushing its concept into production in 2011 as a Range Rover. The image above is the official rendering from Land Rover. As you can ...    Read more

The Land Rover LRX was shown at the 2008 North American International Auto Show and given the green light for production earlier this year. Reports now suggest that Land Rover will also develop a hybrid version of the small SUV.According to Autoexpress, the hybrid system will be quite ...    Read more